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Pastor Joel Osteen Is The Target Of A Complex Online Hoax : The Two-Way : NPR. […] an elaborate hoax targeting Pastor Joel Osteen gained wide attention Monday, after those behind the hoax used Twitter, YouTube, and other social media to spread spurious claims that the pastor had renounced his faith and would close his…

The Calgary Police Service finally stop this bloody mess. Fraud Charges / The City of Calgary Newsroom. During each incident, a man entered a store carrying a shopping basket, or pushing a shopping cart. After adding high-cost items to his cart, or basket, he then allegedly cut himself on razor blades he previously embedded in…

This film is LOADED with what I will too kindly call “questionable claims”. “This really is the greatest story never told.” Oh, really? Story, yes. Truth, you’ve GOT to be kidding. Sirius Film Feat. Dr. Steven Greer By Emmy Winning Amardeep Kaleka Opens April 22. ‘Sirius’, a provocative crowd-funded documentary film from Emmy winning director…

We rarely will call a spade a spade in such a personal manner but there is no excuse left for former televangelist Peter Popoff to redeem himself. If there is a hell, Popoff will be Satan’s used car salesman. What a sack of s**t. Controversial Televangelist Peter Popoff Hawks ‘Miracle Water’. Peter Popoff, the controversial…

This joke was on them. Radio DJs Suspended Over April Fool’s Joke | TheLedger.com. During their Monday morning show on Gator Country 101.9, Val St. John and Scott Fish used a decades-old hoax, announcing that “dihydrogen monoxide” was coming out of Lee County taps. Dihydrogen monoxide is another name for water, based on its molecular…

This scam targeting Asians is going around the world. Hard to believe people fall for it. Are they just trying to be polite? Or are they too gullible? Asian handbag scam hits Melbourne. Police are looking for a group of Asian women who are targeting victims and stealing cash and jewellery in Melbourne’s CBD and…

This press release was yesterday (April 1st) and many bigfooters jumped on it as a great thing, including Melba Ketchum who advocates protection for Sasquatch as a native people. I’m not buying it. What do you think? Animal Legal Defense Fund : Animal Legal Defense Fund Sues to Stop Texas Bigfoot Hunt. Today, the national nonprofit Animal…

The resurrection of a hoax into a new UFO movie. New film explores mysterious Puget Sound UFO sighting |KOMO News. The mysteries behind many UFO sightings may never be explained, but what happened over Puget Sound on June 21, 1947 is a mystery that’s getting new life in a film. It’s a complex story with…

Over the past two years, thanks to the Internet, one file held by the FBI “Vault” has been viewed nearly a million times. UFO memo is FBIs most viewed – Philly.com. It’s little wonder. An FBI memo noting the alleged recovery of three UFOs in New Mexico is the law enforcement agency’s most requested and…

Perfect red lights appear over houses. TOO perfect. Picture shows strange lights over Battle Ground | The Columbian. Keller’s husband, who didn’t want his name used in the paper, gave his wife a picture from his cellphone that shows two clusters of three red lights moving slowly over their home near the Best Western at…

Seriously, I’m just going to include as “doubtful” ANY story that come out of North Korea. It’s like Pravda over there. Is This North Korean Hovercraft-Landing Photo Faked? – In Focus – The Atlantic. While researching a photo entry about North Korea’s recent threats of war, I discovered an image released by North Korea’s official…

In the continuing trial of James McCormick, he testifies that his bomb detection devices worked. No complaints over bomb detectors, fraud accused tells court | UK news | The Guardian. A British businessman accused of producing a useless bomb detector based on a novelty golf ball finder has told a jury he sold his devices…

Woman keeps hair she believes is from Bigfoot. She thinks they are out there and being killed. This story has a rather interesting twist, I found. Bigfoot believer shares hairs: ‘I wouldn’t give it up for anything’ | KVAL CBS 13. Betty Klopp has been holding on to these strands of hair and bits of…

Can’t make this stuff up… A Nigerian pulls a form of Nigerian scam from Canada on lawyers. Former Mississauga man guilty in defrauding lawyers | Toronto Star. A Mississauga man could face up to 20 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to fraud charges in connection with an international scam that has bilked…

I saw the story in passing yesterday… ‘Killer’ Ukrainian dolphins on the loose from military trainers. Ukrainian dolphins trained to find underwater mines and kill enemy divers have skirted their navy handlers and swam off, apparently in search of mates, according to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. Gawker also freaked out about dolphins loose…

The Curator of the Arizona History Museum has put the Silverbell Artifacts on display after an episode of the History Channel’s “America Unearthed” aired a documentary about the artifacts. Mysterious Silverbell artifacts on display | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona. It’s a desert mystery that has baffled Tucsonans and historians for nearly nine decades. In 1924,…

The trial of James McCormick on charges of fraud (for making and selling “fake” bomb detection devices) commenced yesterday at the Old Bailey. The trial is expected to take three weeks. But what is coming out so far is not surprising and does not bode well for Mr. McCormick. Businessman’s bomb-detection kits ‘were based on…

Many of us already knew this thanks to Hitch. Mother Teresa ‘saint of the media’, controversial study says – Times Of India. The controversial study, to be published this month in the journal of studies in religion/sciences called Religieuses, says that Teresa – known across the world as the apostle of the dying and the…

Margaret Sax, conservation scientist at the British Museum, and Jane Walsh, archaeologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, have worked together to study the lengendary crystal skulls from Central America, supposedly made before the Spanish exploration of the continent. Crystal Skulls Deemed Fake. Walsh has traced fake crystal skulls at the British Museum…

Another anatomy of a hoax. Explained. The Making of the Ultimate Fake UFO Video (Where Absolutely Everything Is Fake). Last month, filmmaker Aristomenis “Meni” Tsirbas revealed to Wired that an elaborate UFO prank video he had created was far more than what it seemed: Not only was the UFO fake, but so was everything else…

Someone is pulling a fast one. But, take a look to see the state of ghost hoaxing these days. ‘Ghost’ caught on CCTV camera | Orange UK. CCTV footage said to show a ghost outside a London community centre is going viral after it was posted on YouTube. It shows a transparent figure leaving the…

Recall THIS story that circulated for two days rapidly all over the world: Bird Abduction: Golden eagle grabs child video. We were uncertain right off the mark but knew there was some basis for the story, the tales of birds snatching kids in days gone by. Now, the whole story is revealed in this report…

Back in November, we brought you the story of a lost hiker finally found, a victim of a fruitless search for gold in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. Some people are lucky and are found alive. Others not so lucky and not too smart to have ventured out in the first place to find the…

Update: Does not look like this is going to go through. <fake disappointment> Oh Darn. Wyoming may deny jackalope official ‘mythical critter’ tag. After passing out of the House on Jan. 25, the bill, House Bill 149, waited for more than 10 days for introduction in the Senate. Then it ended up in the Rules…

What an awesome coffee table this would make! Minnesota Ice Man – For Sale! | CFI Blogs. The listing reads: “This is the actual sideshow gaff billed as “The Minnesota Iceman” by Frank Hansen in the 1960’s. This is a one of a kind hoax that was fabricated by a mid-20th century showman. The Iceman…